WordPress MU

wp themes design so much,but MU...

I'm looking for the same thing. I'm being very careful about what I use, seems like so many bugs are being worked out. Anyone have a link to tested wpmu themes?

http://wpmudevorg.wordpress.com/themes.php

Theorhetically, "most" themes shoudl work with MU too. The ones to watch out for are ones with options pages made with Ohz's theme toolkit. This is easily fixed though.

And frankly, I don't run across many regular theme for WP that I don't have to tweak.

I agree Andrea.

I've yet to run across a theme that I haven't had to tweak something on. Not including any custom edits I want, but to the theme out of the box before I make my personal edits.

My "biggest" complaints are not terminating a home link with a trailing slash, lack of proper indentations in the html (yes, I know once a wp function runs, it jacks it up, but not the point), and 50 line breaks between tags.

Validation is occasionally an issue, but that just shows a lack of skill/caring/knowledge/whatever on the "author's" part.

Once in a while you get themes that rock in one browser, and suck in another, but it's becoming more rare with recent themes. Granted, some are slightly different in IE, but I won't touch that topic with a 50' pole.

For a theme to "specifically" work with MU, there really isn't anything different that has to be done, that you wouldn't do to a theme on a standalone install, with very few exception in regards to themes having their own settings page. I tend to either take them out if it's a really nice theme, or skip the theme all together.

It all comes down to personal preference, really. If you'd change something on a theme you were going to install for a single install, you'll probably make the same or a similar change for MU.

The "biggest" difference with MU, is you should always test, test, and test again for every theme you install. Get a couple buddies to look at them too, and try to hit as many browsers/operating systems as you can.

Regardless though, there's always going to be that one user that has an issue. Comes with the territory though, or so it seems.

hardcoded links in a theme are my biggest pain. :) But we are SO on the same page, lunabyte.

Oh yes... I love links to pages on other peoples sites soooo much.

/sarcasm

And to pages and add-ons that don't exist... :D I could go on.

Or plugins, or images...

Or css files that are 4 lines long, and only because your editor gets tired of printing on the same line....

And another one... 100k+ screenshots...